Re: Spell checking in the next version of Yarn

Gary H (garyh@sco.COM)
Tue, 25 Jun 1996 02:03:24 -0700

David Egeland <davideg@sn.no> wrote:
|Hi!
|
|I often use the excellent spell checker option in Yarn, and I have a
|suggestion for the next version of Yarn. Would it be possible to have
|the spell checker drop out the quoted part of the message, and only scan
|the part I've written? The reason I would've found this helpful, is
|because I don't like to change what other people have written, and in
|this way, I wouldn't have to skip the quoted parts "manually". Finally,
|I would like to thank Chin for a great news-reader, and keep up the good
|work! :)

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If yarn can just pass to the spell checker what I
just wrote, it would be such a nice improvement. Currently, the spell
checker will flag even email addresses. Of course, when you quote people,
you want to quote them verbatim.

It wouldn't be too hard to do -- yarn already knows about its quoting
character via the globals file so YARN can filter out its quoted text. Heck,
I can write a routine to do that (pass text minues the quotes). Only problem
is when the speller saves the modified file, how do you get the quote back in?
Sometime I write things before the start of a quote sometimes after.

All we really need is a front end and a back end to the spell checker. It
would be nice if it was done in YARN.
Gary